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  1. 1
    Bebop, Post-bop, Hard bop, Cool jazz, West coast jazz
    Gardena
    The Trip, The Way It Was!, No Limit, Besame Mucho, The Savoy Recordings - Part 1, Stardust, The Art of Pepper, Volume 3, Original Jazz Classics, Among Friends, Mucho Calor, Roadgame, Art Pepper - Straight Life, The Trip, Surf Ride, The Hollywood All-Star Sessions, Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section, The Art Peppet Quartet, Art Pepper + Eleven – Modern Jazz Classics, The Complete Galaxy Recordings, Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section, Young Art, The Best of..., Complete Straight Ahead Sessions, Tokyo Debut, Landscape, Intensity, Friday Night at the Village Vanguard, Modern Art, Complete Surf Club Sessions, The Early Show, The Complete Village Vanguard Sessions, Live in Tokyo '79: Besame Mucho, Gettin' Together, Art Pepper + Eleven, Playboys, Laurie's Choice, A Night in Tunisia, Winter Moon, Living Legend, One September Afternoon, I'll Remember April (live at Foothill College), Live at the Village Vanguard, Saturday Night At The Village Vanguard, Live in Tokyo '79: Landscape, Thursday Night at the Village Vanguard, Arthur's Blues, Complete Discovery-Savoy Master Takes, Gettin' Together!, Intensity, Art Pepper + Eleven, Winter Moon, Warner Jazz Les Incontournables, Landscape, Smack Up, Mosaic Select 15, Art Pepper Today, So in Love, Straight Life, Popo, Those Kenton Days, Art Pepper Today, Discoveries, The Artistry of Pepper, The Savoy Recordings - Part 2 More
    United States of America
  2. 2

    Barney Kessel

    Pop music, Jazz, Cool jazz
    Feeling Free, It's a Blue World, The Artistry of Barney Kessel, Poor Butterfly, Kessel Plays Standards, Autumn Leaves, Some Like It Hot, Barney Kessel, Volume 1: Easy Like, The Concord Jazz Heritage Series, Music to Listen to Barney Kessel By, Barney Kessel's Swingin' Party at Contemporary, Barney Kessel, Volume 3: "To Swing or Not to Swing", Barney Kessel, Soaring, Spontaneous Combustion, Let's Cook!, Plays For Lovers (1953-1988), The First Four Albums, Modern Jazz Performances From Bizet's Carmen, To Swing or Not to Swing - Blue Soul, Just Friends, Solo, Red Hot and Blues, Barney Kessel & Friends More
    United States of America
  3. 3
    Cool jazz, Post-bop, Swing
    Philadelphia
  4. 4
    Swing, Post-bop, Cool jazz
    Philadelphia
    The Chronological Classics: Beryl Booker 1953-1954, The Chronological Classics: Beryl Booker 1946-1952 More
  5. 5
    Jazz, Post-bop, Hard bop, Cool jazz, Modal jazz, Third Stream
    Plainfield
    Bill Evans With Symphony Orchestra, Further Conversations With Myself, You're Gonna Hear From Me, The Very Best of Bill Evans, Complete Fantasy Recordings, Sunday at the Village Vanguard, Petite Blonde, The Complete Riverside Recordings, The Ivory Hunters, Affinity, Symbiosis, Montreux II, Montreux III, Consecration: The Final Recordings Part 2, The Last Waltz: The Final Recordings, Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Letter to Evan, The Solo Sessions, Volume 1, Alone (Again), A Jazz Hour With Bill Evans: Autumn Leaves, At the Montreux Jazz Festival, The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album, Nirvana, You Must Believe in Spring, Unknown Session, How My Heart Sings!, Empathy, Intuition, I Will Say Goodbye, From Left to Right, Re: Person I Knew, Blue in Green: The Concert in Canada, Interplay, Getting Sentimental, Serenity, The Complete Bill Evans on Verve, Quiet Now, Living Time, The Best of Bill Evans Live, The Complete Riverside Recordings (disc 2), The Paris Concert, Edition One, The Tokyo Concert, Turn Out the Stars, Conversations With Myself, Alone, Verve Jazz Masters 5, Trio '65, Moon Beams, Stan Getz & Bill Evans - But Beautiful, The Best of Bill Evans on Verve, The Complete Gus Wildi Recordings, Symbiosis, Trio Live, The Gary McFarland Orchestra, Half Moon Bay, The Paris Concert: Edition Two, Live in Europe II, Music of Bill Evans (Kronos Quartet feat. Eddie Gomez and Jim Hall), Together Again, Everybody Digs Bill Evans, Original Jazz Classics Collection, Stan Getz & Bill Evans, Quintessence, The Solo Sessions, Vol. 2, Since We Met, On Green Dolphin Street, A Simple Matter of Conviction, Autumn Leaves, Easy to Love, Bill Evans Alone, New Jazz Conceptions, The Brilliant, California Here I Come, Ultimate Bill Evans, Bill Evans for Lovers, Waltz for Debby, Time Remembered, Bill Evans at Town Hall, Volume 1, Loose Blues, Bill Evans Trio with Symphony Orchestra, Jazzhouse, Plays the Theme from The V.I.P.s and Other Great Songs, New Jazz Conceptions, Turn Out the Stars: The Final Village Vanguard Recordings, Jazz 'Round Midnight, Trio 64, Crosscurrents, We Will Meet Again, The Secret Sessions, The Bill Evans Album, Autumn Leaves, Undercurrent, Bill Evans Trio at Shelly's Manne-Hole, Hollywood, California, The Complete Live at the Village Vanguard 1961, Homecoming, His Last Concert in Germany, At the Montreux Jazz Festival, Starfish & The Moon, New Conversations, Bill Evans Plays for Lovers, Piano Player, Portraiture, Empathy / A Simple Matter of Conviction, Compact Jazz: Bill Evans, Autumn Leaves, Riverside Profiles, Piano Player, Eloquence, The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961, Big Fun, What's New, The Complete Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Recordings, Intermodulation, Jazz Showcase, Bill Evans's Finest Hour, Highlights From Turn Out The Stars, The Solo Sessions, Volume 2, Quiet Now: Never Let Me Go, Ballads and More, The Solo Sessions, Vol. 1, We Will Meet Again - The Bill Evans Anthology (disc 1) More
    United States of America
    Fantasy Records, Verve Records, Riverside Records
  6. 6

    Bill Perkins

    Cool jazz
    Perk Plays Prez, Bossa Nova With Strings Attached, On Stage: The Bill Perkins Octet More
  7. 7

    Billy Bauer

    Jazz, Cool jazz
    Plectrist
    United States of America
  8. 8
    Traditional pop music, Swing, Bebop, Vocal jazz, Cool jazz
    New York City
    Verve Jazz Masters 51, Blossom Dearie Sings Rootin' Songs, Soubrette Sings Broadway Hit Songs, Once Upon a Summertime, May I Come In?, Chez Wahlberg: Part One, Blossom Time at Ronnie Scott's Club London, My Gentleman Friend, That's Just the Way I Want to Be, Our Favorite Songs, The Pianist: Les Blue Stars / Jazz in Paris, Give Him The Ooh-La-La, Needlepoint Magic, Volume 5, Blossom Dearie, Blossom's Planet, I'm Hip, Songs of Chelsea, The Diva Series, Whisper for You, Live in London, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Sings Comden and Green, Sweet Blossom Dearie More
    United States of America
    EMI, Capitol Records, Verve Records, Barclay Records, Fontana Records, Daffodil Records More
  9. 9
    Post-bop, Cool jazz, West coast jazz
    Kansas City
    Jazz Is a Kick, The Ivory Hunters, Recorded Fall 1961, Bob Brookmeyer and Friends, Bob Brookmeyer Featuring Al Cohn, Traditionalism Revisited, Mosaic Select 9: Bob Brookmeyer, Island, Just Jazz: The Bob Brookmeyer Quartet More
    United States of America
  10. 10

    Bob Gordon

    Jazz, Cool jazz
    United States of America
  11. 11
    Cool jazz, West coast jazz, West Coast blues
    Los Angeles
    Calm, Cool & Collette, Nice Day, Buddy Collette Big Band in Concert, Flute Talk, Soft Touch, Jazz Loves Paris More
    United States of America
  12. 12
    Jazz fusion, Post-bop, Jazz-funk, Hard bop, Cool jazz, Crossover Jazz, Soul jazz, Boogaloo, West coast jazz More
    Los Angeles
    Chic Chic Chico, Montreux Festival, Further Adventures of El Chico, The Original Ellington Suite, Chic* Chic Chico, The Further Adventures of El Chico, Man From Two Worlds, Truth, The Dealer, El Chico, Passin' Thru, Man From Two Worlds, Thoughts of..., Gongs East, Drumfusion, El Chico, The Chico Hamilton Trio, Man from Two Worlds, The Master, Passin' Thru More
  13. 13
    Jazz, Bebop, Cool jazz
  14. 14
    Jazz, Swing, Bebop, Cool jazz
    New York City
    United States of America
    Savoy Records
  15. 15
    Jazz, Cool jazz
    Terre Haute
    Best of Big Bands: Claude Thornhill, 1947 Transcription Performances
    United States of America
  16. 16
    Jazz, Cool jazz, Third Stream, West coast jazz
    Concord
    Interchanges '54, Private Brubeck Remembers, Quiet as the Moon, Young Lions & Old Tigers, The Very Best, Giants of Jazz, 50 Years Of Dave Brubeck Live At The Monterey Jazz Festival 1958-2007, Classical Brubeck, Time Signatures: A Career Retrospective, Brubeck à la mode, Nightshift: Live at the Blue Note, The Quartet, 80th Birthday Celebration, Dave Brubeck and Jay & Kai at Newport, Jazz Moods: Cool, His Greatest Hits, Dave Brubeck Plays Standards, Brubeck Trio With Cal Tjader, Volume 1, Summit Sessions, 1954-1966, The Jazz Biography, The 40th Anniversary Tour of the U.K., Brubeck Trio with Cal Tjader, Volume 2, Back Home, Trio & Quartet, Love Songs, Take ... The Greatest Hits, Moscow Night, Dave Brubeck in Moscow, The Real Ambassadors, Ballads, Take Five, Volume 1, Time In, Tritonis, At Carnegie Hall, Take Five, Dejavu Retro Gold Collection, Take Five (Quadromania), Reunion, Live: Tritonis, Les indispensables de Dave Brubeck, The Essential Dave Brubeck, Live With the LSO, Take Five, Dave Brubeck Plays for Lovers, Time Was, Dave Brubeck's Greatest Hits, On Time, Brandenburg Gate: Revisited, Essentiel Jazz: Dave Brubeck, Brubeck Plays Brubeck, Brother, the Great Spirit Made Us All, Legacy of a Legend, Early Concepts, Ken Burns Jazz, The Dave Brubeck Collection, Dave Brubeck /Paul Desmond, 1975: The Duets (feat. Paul Desmond), Bravo! Brubeck, Time In, Collection, Bravo! Brubeck!, Take Five, Late Night Brubeck - Live From the Blue Note, We're All Together Again for the First Time, Live at Montreux 1982, Gone with the Wind, In Their Own Sweet Way, Take Five, Jazz at Oberlin, Just You, Just Me, Plays and Plays and..., The Essence of Dave Brubeck, Two Generations Of Brubeck, Truth Is Fallen, A Dave Brubeck Christmas, Once When I Was Very Young, Gold, One Alone: Solo Piano, Indian Summer, The Gates of Justice, My Romance, Adventures In Time, Plays and Plays and Plays, Jazz Collection, The Dave Brubeck Collection, Koto Song, Midnite Jazz & Blues: Flamingo, Blue Rondo, John Salmon Plays Dave Brubeck, Take Five: His Greatest Hits, Vocal Encounters, Best of Dave Brubeck, All the Things We Are More
    United States of America
  17. 17

    Dave Edwards

    Cool jazz, Big band, West coast jazz
  18. 18

    Don Raffell

    Pop music, Bebop, Cool jazz, Big band, West coast jazz
  19. 19

    Gary Foster

    Classical music, Pop music, Bebop, Cool jazz, West coast jazz
  20. 20
    Jazz, Swing, Bebop, Cool jazz
    Battersea
    Grand Piano, On the Sunny Side of the Strip, Burnished Brass / Satin Brass, That Shearing Sound, Live at the Cafe Carlyle (feat. Don Thompson), Piano, Two for the Road, The Best of George Shearing, White Satin, The Swingin's Mutual!, Verve Jazz Masters 57, Favorite Things, On a Clear Day, The Concord Jazz Heritage Series, Compact Jazz, Jazz Moments, Reflections (1992-1998), I Hear a Rhapsody, Paper Moon, Music to Hear, The Early Years: Volume 2, More Grand Piano, First Edition, Ballad Essentials, More Grand Piano, Walkin' - Live at the Blue Note, Continental Experience, George Shearing in Dixieland, Dexterity, Blues Alley Jazz, The Best of George Shearing (1955 - 1960), Breakin' Out, The Rare Delight of You, A Jazz Date With George Shearing, Hopeless Romantics, The Definitive George Shearing, Timeless George Shearing, Here & Now! / New Look!, Shearing on Stage, Alone Together, A Perfect Match, Christmas with George Shearing, The Shearing Touch, Latin Lace / Latin Affair, Black Satin, Jump for Joy More
    United States of America, United Kingdom
    Capitol Records, MGM Records, Savoy Records, Concord Records
  21. 21
    Jazz, Cool jazz
    Gerry Mulligan Meets Scott Hamilton: Soft Lights and Sweet Music, Mulligan Meets Monk, Greatest Hits, Mullenium, California Concerts, Volume 2, The Gerry Mulligan Quartet, Presenting the Gerry Mulligan Sextet, Reunion With Chet Baker and the Gerry Mulligan Quartet, Midnite Jazz & Blues: My Funny Valentine, Jazz Giants '58, The Art of Gerry Mulligan, What Is There to Say?, Modern Jazz Archive, Jazz 'Round Midnight, Re-Birth of the Cool, Westwook Walk, The Saxophone Player, All Star Groups: Three Classic Albums Plus, Saxaphone Dreams, Walk on the Water, This Is Jazz, Blues in Time, Compact Jazz, Night Lights, Getz Meets Mulligan in Hi-Fi, Gerry Mulligan Meets the Saxophonists, '63: The Concert Jazz Band, Gene Norman Presents The Original Gerry Mulligan Tentet and Quartet featuring Chet Baker, Midas Touch: Live in Berlin, Meets Johnny Hodges, The Gerry Mulligan Songbook, Gerry Meets Hamp, The Original Quartet With Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan Meets Enrico Intra, The Complete Verve Gerry Mulligan Concert Jazz Band Sessions, Mulligan, Mainstream, Verve Jazz Masters 36, The Jazz Masters: 100 Years of Jazz, Legacy, Jeru, Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster, California Concerts, Volume 1, Historically Speaking, Mulligan Plays Mulligan, Little Big Horn More
    Pacific Jazz Records
  22. 22
    Jazz fusion, Post-bop, Jazz-funk, Hard bop, Cool jazz, Acid jazz, Modal jazz, Third Stream More
    United States of America
  23. 23
    Bebop, Cool jazz, Big band, Modern Creative
    Austria
  24. 24
    Swing, Bebop, Cool jazz, West coast jazz
    Farmersville
    Down-Home, Windflower, Rhythm Willie, Nothing but the Blues, The Concord Jazz Heritage Series, Jazz at Concord, Jazz/Concord, Three Guitars in Bossa Nova Time, In a Mellow Tone, Texas Swings, Roll Call, Soft & Mellow, Seven, Come Eleven, Two for the Road, After You've Gone, The Midnight Roll, Herb Mix, Soft Shoe, Ellis in Wonderland More
    United States of America
  25. 25
    Jazz, Post-bop, Cool jazz
    Buffalo
    Commitment, Concierto, Ballad Essentials, Concierto, Jazz Impressions of Japan & Live in Tokyo, Textures, Magic Meeting, Dialogues, Jim Hall Live at the Village Vanguard, Live!, Studio Trieste, Alone Together, All Across the City, Jim Hall & Pat Metheny, Undercurrent, Jim Hall's Three, Jim Hall & Basses, Concierto, By Arrangement, ... Where Would I Be?, The Concord Jazz Heritage Series, Intermodulation, Circles, Subsequently More
    United States of America
    A&M Records, Telarc International Corporation

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